2008 NFL Draft
Doc's Sports, your NFL handicapping and information leader for more than three decades, presents its 2008 NFL Draft page. If you can't get enough information about the 2008 NFL Draft, the you will want to bookmark this page and come back often up until the NFL Draft starts on April 26 in New York City.
Doc's first Mock Draft will come out before the Super Bowl and will be updated every few weeks. Once the NFL Draft gets closer, we will start updating more frequently. We will also post articles each week relating to the 2008 NFL Draft, so draft junkies will always have new information.
2008 NFL Draft Grades
by Robert Ferringo - 04/29/2008
The 2008 NFL Draft came and went and, as I first surmised in my initial mock draft, no one had any idea what was going on. Some of that disillusionment seemed to carry into the draft rooms of certain franchises, because there were definitely more teams that completely missed with their draft selections - I'm looking right at you Cincinnati - than there were clubs that made the most of their weekend (Kansas City, come on down).
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2008 NFL Mock Draft
by Robert Ferringo - updated 04/23/2008
The 2008 NFL Draft will take place this weekend, starting Saturday morning and running into Sunday afternoon. I have said that the draft is the biggest gamble in sports. And I think I'm right. So trying to predict how teams are going to maneuver - especially 20 picks down the line and in spite of the fact that one domino can send the whole day in a completely different direction - is a bit like trying to predict where rain drops are going to fall on your windshield.
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Betting on the NFL Draft
by Robert Ferringo - 04/23/2008
In my initial mock draft projections I had the Miami Dolphins selecting former Virginia defensive end Chris Long with the No. 1 overall selection. However, on Monday the Dolphins announced that they had reached a five-year, $58 million agreement with former Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long as the top pick of the 2008 NFL Draft. In my mocks, I did preface my selections by saying that either Long made perfect sense for a team trying to rebuild. And I think this is a very solid selection for the Dolphins, who really needed to rebuild their house from the ground up.
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Quarterbacks in the NFL Draft
by Trevor Whenham - 04/23/2008
Picking a quarterback in the first round or two of the NFL Draft is a risky, expensive proposition that backfires at least as often as it succeeds. The power of a true franchise quarterback and the lure of picking a guy like Peyton Manning, though, is way too much for a team to resist. This year, there is more serious need for a quarterback than there are blue chip prospects, so it could get especially interesting on Saturday afternoon. Here's a look at the teams that are likely to be itching for a quarterback (or at least those that have figured prominently in quarterback talk in the last couple of weeks), and the order that the top four guys are now likely to come off the board (though the bottom three could change a few times before Saturday because they have already changed a hundred times).
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Potential NFL Draft Steals
by Trevor Whenham - 04/16/2008
We've seen it time and time again when it comes to the NFL Draft - everyone concentrates on the first round, but it's the guys no one is talking about in later rounds that turn into stars. My point is made with just one name - Tom Brady. That means that part of the fun of following the draft every year is picking a few guys that you think could be steals and see how it turns out. Here are five guys that will go late on the first day or into the second day who could be huge picks for their new teams:
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NFL Draft Player Rankings
by Josh Nagel - 02/28/2008
Now that dozens of young professional football hopefuls have shown off their size, skills and speed for NFL scouts in the annual meat market called the Combine, teams now must get ready for the moment of truth and decide which players they believe will best change their team's fortunes. Of course, the Combine results and the scouting reports don't always mean a whole lot … we all know by now that Tom Brady was a sixth-round afterthought on the heels of spending most of his Michigan career backing up Drew Henson, whereas once can't-miss prospects like Akili Smith and Tim Couch have long since played their way out of the league.
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2008 NFL Draft Prospects
by Trevor Whenham - 02/27/2008
I'm no Mel Kiper, Jr. - I don't have the hair to pull it off. Like Kiper, though, I am obsessed with the NFL Draft. I can spend endless hours dissecting 21-year-old guys in every possible way. It doesn't matter that I won't pay any attention to many of them once they become pros. For these few months they are on display in a meat market, and I am a butcher looking for the best cuts.
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2008 NFL Draft Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 02/27/2008
The 2008 NFL Draft is getting closer and closer with every passing second. I have spent lots of time watching the Combine, viewing videos, reading opinions and analysis, and compiling lists and mock drafts, but the sad truth is that I don't have any more concept of what is going to happen than anyone else does. Some of my NFL Draft predictions will be pleasingly accurate, while others will be disastrously wrong. I'm not confident that those predictions will all pay off, but there are other predictions I feel better about. In fact, I am practically certain that I will be correct about these 10 NFL Draft predictions:
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NFL Draft Rules
by Trevor Whenham - 02/20/2008
The NFL Draft is heaven for sports geeks everywhere. There is more to be discussed and debated and measured and calculated and disputed than almost anything outside of the NFL season itself. Every year it turns into a bigger and bigger event, and it gets more and more attention from media far and wide. The stakes are high, and so an event like that can't just run itself. It needs all sorts of rules and regulations to keep everything in order. Here's a collection of some of the NFL Draft rules you might want to know so that you are completely ready for draft watching in April. After all, true football fans take their draft preparations as seriously as the players who will be drafted.
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NFL Draft Order
by Trevor Whenham - 02/20/2008
The NFL Draft comes around every April, and every year it gets to be more and more of a spectacle. It has always been popular, but thanks to increased attention and the availability of a dizzying amount of information about every prospect thanks to the Internet, the draft is more popular than ever. In fact, you could probably make the argument that the NFL Draft is one of the five or 10 biggest sporting events of the year in North America. It is heaven for the sports geeks of the world. The draft season starts in earnest with the college all-star games, turns into a full-fledged frenzy with the Combine in February, and gets more and more insane up until the first team is on the clock on draft day.
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NFL Draft Tiebreakers
by Trevor Whenham - 02/20/2008
The NFL Draft is more important than ever to teams trying to build a winner, and to the fans of those teams that hope for a brighter future. As such, the order in which teams pick is incredibly important, too. The last two picks in every round are reserved for the teams that play in the Super Bowl - the winner picks last, and the loser picks second to last. Other than that, NFL Draft rules state that the draft order is determined by the records of the team, regardless of whether they made the playoffs or not. The team with the worst record picks first, and the team with the best regular season record that didn't win the Super Bowl picks 30th.
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NFL Combine Sleepers
by Trevor Whenham - 02/19/2008
The NFL Combine, a circus so big and spectacular that Cirque de Soleil is jealous, takes place in Indianapolis this week. It's an odd, flawed process, but it's totally fascinating, and it still holds tremendous importance to teams as they try to evaluate talent and pick the NFL Draft prospects that will put them over the top.
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NFL Combine Elite Players
by Trevor Whenham - 02/19/2008
For players with first day NFL Draft potential, and especially for those that could go in the first round, the Combine this week in Indianapolis can be absolutely crucial. Those that can show that they measure up well compared to the rest of their class can find themselves moving up draft boards, and in the early rounds a move up even a few picks can mean hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars. Here's a look at four elite players who are expected to participate in at least some of the Combine drills and could be rewarded handsomely by that choice if it goes well, or regret the decision to participate if it doesn't.
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